He L, Jones J, He W, Bjork C.B., Wen J, Dai Q. PRDM16 regulates a temporal transcriptional program to promote progression of cortical neural progenitors. Development. February 17, 2021, doi:10.1242/dev.194670. PMID: 33597191

Quinto-Rives N, Komori H, Derek H. Janssens, Shu Kondo, Dai Q, Moore AW and Lee CY. Sequential activation of transcriptional repressors promotes progenitor commitment by silencing stem cell identity genes. 2020. Elife., 2020; Nov 26: doi: 10.7554/eLife.56187.  PMID: 33241994

Chui A, Zhang Q, Dai Q and Shi S. Oxidative stress regulates progenitor behavior and cortical neurogenesis. Development. 2020 147: dev184150. PMID: 32041791.

Ueberschar M, Wang H, Zhang C, Kondo S, Aoki T, Schedl P, Lai EC, Wen J, Dai Q. BEN-solo factors partition active chromatin to ensure proper gene activation in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 2019 Dec 13;10(1): 5700. PMID: 31836703. 

Strassman A, Schnutgen F, Dai Q, Jones JC, Gomez AC, Pitstick L, Holton NE, Moskal R, Leslie ER, vonMelchner H, Beier DR, and Bjork BC. Generation of a multipurpose Prdm16 allele by targeted trapping. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 2017 Jul 1;10(7):909-922. PMID: 28424158

Yao L, Wang S, Westholm JO, Dai Q, Matsuda R, Hosono C, Bray S, Lai EC, Samakovlis C. Genome-wide identification of Grainy head targets in Drosophila reveals regulatory interactions with the POU domain transcription factor Vvl. Development. 2017 Sep 1;144(17):3145-3155. PMID: 28760809

Dai Q, Ren A, Westholm JO, Duan H, Patel DJ and Lai EC. Common and distinct DNA-binding and regulatory activities of the BEN-solo transcription factor family. Genes & Development. 2015 Jan 1; 29(1): 48-62. PMID: 25561495

Milton CC, Grusche FA, Degoutin JL, Yu E, Dai Q, Lai EC, Harvey KF. The Hippo pathway regulates hematopoiesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology. 2014 Nov 17; 24(22): 2673-80. PMID: 25454587

Wen J, Mohammed J, Bortolamiol-Becet D, Tsai H, Robine N, Westholm JO, Ladewig E, Dai Q, Okamura K, Flynt AS, Zhang D, Andrews J, Cherbas L, Kaufman TC, Cherbas P, Siepel A, Lai EC. Diversity of miRNAs, siRNAs, and piRNAs across 25 Drosophila cell lines. Genome Res. 2014 Jul; 24(7): 1236-50. PMID: 24985917

Aoki T, Wolle D, Ben Noon EP, Dai Q, Lai EC and Schedl P. Bi-functional cross-linking reagents efficiently capture protein-DNA complexes in Drosophila embryos. Fly. 2013 Oct 17;8(1). PMID: 24135698

Dai Q, Andreu-Agullo C, Insolera R, Wong LC, Shi SH and Lai EC. BEND6 is a nuclear antagonist of Notch signaling during self-renewal of neural stem cells. Development. 2013 May 1; 140 (9) :1892-902. PMID: 23571214

Dai Q, Ren A, Westholm JO, Serganov AA, Patel DJ and Lai EC. The BEN domain is a novel sequence-specific DNA binding domain conserved in neural transcriptional repressors. Genes & Development. 2013 Mar 15;27(6):602-14. PMID: 23468431.

Bejarano F, Bortolamiol-Becet D, Dai Q, Sun K, Saj A, Chou YT, Raleigh DR, Kim K, Ni JQ, Duan H, Yang JS, Fulga TA, Van Vactor D, Perrimon N, Lai EC. A genome-wide transgenic resource for conditional expression of Drosophila microRNAs. Development. 2012;139(15):2821-31. PMID: 22745315. 

Dai Q*, Smibert P*, Lai EC. Exploiting Drosophila genetics to understand microRNA function and regulation. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2012;99:201-35. Review. PMID: 22365740. (* co-first author).

Duan H*, Dai Q*, Kavaler J*, Bejarano F, Medranda G, Negre N and Lai EC. Insensitive is a co-repressor for Suppressor of Hairless and regulates Notch signaling during neural development. EMBO J. 2011;30(15):3120-33. PMID: 21765394. (* co-first author)

Berezikov E, Robine N, Samsonova A, Westholm JO, Naqvi A, Hung JH, Okamura K, Dai Q, Bortolamiol-Becet D, Martin R, Zhao Y, Zamore PD, Hannon GJ, Marra MA, Weng Z, Perrimon N, Lai EC. Deep annotation of Drosophila melanogaster microRNAs yields insights into their processing, modification, and emergence. Genome Res. 2011;21(2):203-15. PMID: 21177969

modENCODE Consortium, Roy S, Ernst J, Kharchenko PV, Kheradpour P, Negre N, Eaton ML, Landolin JM, Bristow CA, Ma L, Lin MF, Washietl S, Arshinoff BI, Ay F, Meyer PE, Robine N, Washington NL, Di Stefano L, Berezikov E, Brown CD, Candeias R, Carlson JW, Carr A, Jungreis I, Marbach D, Sealfon R, Tolstorukov MY, Will S, Alekseyenko AA, Artieri C, Booth BW, Brooks AN, Dai Q, et al. Identification of functional elements and regulatory circuits by Drosophila modencode. Science. 2010;330(6012):1787-97. PMID: 21177974

Qi D, Bergman M, Aihara M, Nibu Y, and Mattias Mannervik. Drosophila Ebi mediates Snail-dependent transcriptional repression through HDAC3-induced histone deacetylation. EMBO.J., 2008;27(6):898-909. PMID: 18309295

Haecker A, Qi D, Lilja T, Moussian B, Andrioli LP, Luschnig S, Mannervik M. Drosophila Brakeless Interacts with Atrophin and Is Required for Tailless-Mediated Transcriptional Repression in Early Embryos. PLoS Biol., 2007;5:1298-1308. PMID: 17503969

Qi D, Jin H, Lilja T, Mannervik M. Drosophila Reptin and other TIP60 complex components promote generation of silent chromatin. Genetics, 2006;174:241-51. PMID: 16816423

Qi D, Larsson J and Mannervik M. Drosophila Ada2b is required for viability and normal histone H3 acetylation. Mol Cell Biol., 2004;24:8080-9. PMID: 15340070

Lilja T, Qi D, Stabell M, Mannervik M. The CBP coactivator functions both upstream and downstream of Dpp/Screw signaling in the early Drosophila embryo. Dev Biol., 2003;262:294-302. PMID: 14550792